Thankfully, we were able to enjoy the rain in a hot springs. If you are ever in the area of Rexburg, Green Canyon Resort is rustic (to say the least), but a fun little place to soak and hike. Here is the link: http://www.greencanyonhotspring.com/
It is owned by an LDS family and it has been in the family for a few generations. You can buy local hothouse-grown tomatoes at the food counter there, that use water from the hotspring for heat and for minerals (hydroponics). They supply the local Ralph's to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds per year. Amazing..... That has always been my hydroponic dream......
Anyway - the weather just seems too odd for this time of year. I have to wonder if this is the wet, cool spring spoken of by Koyle (I cannot vouch for a long, hard winter in Utah...., but I certainly can vouch for a very wet spring):
http://www.reliefmine.com/articles/koyle/81-the-long-hard-winter
Here are some quotes from this blog post:
"The mine will come in following an unusually hard winter. There will be heavy snows and a late wet spring. After two weeks of planting time, heavy rains will pelt the seed out of the ground. Then, hot dry winds will commence to dry everything up, including the few remaining plants." [JJ#78, p.10 quoted in RM II, p.227, #65]
Norman Pierce: "He [Bishop Koyle] gave a number of signposts by which we would know and recognize the approach of this crisis. 1) A long, hard winter that would do much damage." [DMS 54]
Lavawn Owen: "The Bishop said there would be a heavy winter just before the Mine comes in, and it will be the worst winter ever. Immediately following this winter, there will be flooding and a very wet spring." [LO, May, 1993]
Steve Wood: "He [Bishop Koyle] also saw the Mine would come in after a hard winter followed by a water-logged spring, then a dry hot summer, and when the wheat was in the boot, the Bishop came out of the tunnel with the first gold in his hands." [BKDM in RMII 202]
Personally? I think this may happen next spring and that this is the beginning of a change in weather patterns. Definitely an El Nino year..... Definitely in the fourth year of drought in the Southwest. As so many are saying, we are in it big.
Pretty sure we had a long hard winter on the East side of the country this year. Did he specify that the long hard winter would be in Utah? The wet spring is very evident in Utah. I have been feeling that this unusual weather definitely is foretelling something. I also had the feeling today, before I read this post, that this summer would be very hot and dry.
ReplyDeleteThe winter before last winter was really brutal to the eastern part of the country, maybe the worst, while the west has had relatively moderate climate. The bellwether in my mind is that Koyle says the president is a Republican when the economy collapses and the mine comes in around that time.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know, the mine is still idle. From pictures I've seen on other blogs, the mine looks pretty empty and almost a time capsule of 1930's 40's construction. So much is so out of date. They would need all new electrical and mechanical in this place, not to mention of course the missing smelting equipment. Anyway, I'm probably wandering.
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The part of Utah I am in experienced what I would call an unusually short, mild winter. There has been near record moisture for the month of May, but May 2011 had even more. We tend to think what we are going through at the moment is unique, but a quick look at the past usually shows that similar things have happened before. They talk about weather in terms of "normal" or averages, but it is really a compilation of extremes.
ReplyDelete«the Bishop came out of the tunnel with the first gold in his hands.»
ReplyDeleteBut he already died, did he not?